Livro do Desassossego
by Fernando Pessoa · first published 1982
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The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa's greatest literary achievement. An "autobiography" or "diary" containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator Margaret Jull Costa. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. This existential masterpiece was first published in Portuguese in 1982, fo
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Oh, sure! 1. The Book of Disquiet by Bernardo Soares/Fernando Pessoa ("Livro do Desassossego" in the original Portuguese) 2. 1984 by George Orwell 3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 4. The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman 5. (As mentioned) The Picture of Dorian Gray…
on “As 'Dorian Gray' ages, its relevance only grows” ↗Some pretty cool recommendations here! I've personally neglected national (Portuguese) authors for about a decade now, so I've started focusing on that; I'm currently reading "Livro do Desassossego" by Fernando Pessoa. For the few months before that, I'd focused on some classics: - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 1984 by George Orwell - The Village…
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